Game News Knights of the Chalice 2 Released

[JarlFrank]

As I said, the scammers ruined it for everyone else. Something similar happened on Amazon with self-published books, where scammers would abuse the very generous systems and consequently Amazon introduced various restrictions that are also a pain in the ass for legit authors, but what can you do.

Scammers gonna scam.

 

[Sin2x]

Ultima VII remake when?

 

[Dorateen]

So I have to purchase the game again, so I can leave a review that will be counted. Fine.

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

Is Soul of War any good? Having 2 good games out of this nonsense would be a total win.

its awesome, you should definitely get it and chat up the developer about it. He is very interested to hear about bug feedback.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Some guy posted one-star review on GOG and claims that Pierre stole his resources and scripts from the free game on itch.io.
https://fishdog-games.itch.io/soul-of-war

That's what we're discussing above. The ellis studio dude is well known on the Codex for making assflips.

Pierre has just used some of the same commercial ass packs as him.

Spoiler

 

[ChavaiotH]

KotC2 starts with hard masochism slowly growing into pleasure

 

[Red Army Redux]

Why is there no Drow race? Low Magic Age is OGL and has a Drow race.

 

[Tyranicon]

Got some more steam reviews now. IIRC, around 10 weighted reviews, the game will get a % and start showing up in the store with more visibility. Steam is pretty opaque with their process though. Lack of a launch discount probably reduces visibility.

Not sure what Pierre's stance on discounts are, but they help a lot. Even 10% off will do wonders.

 

[JarlFrank]

Got some more steam reviews now. IIRC, around 10 weighted reviews, the game will get a % and start showing up in the store with more visibility. Steam is pretty opaque with their process though. Lack of a launch discount probably reduces visibility.

Not sure what Pierre's stance on discounts are, but they help a lot. Even 10% off will do wonders.

His reply to my "please lower the fucking price dear god" email:

Thank you for the feedback Frank! Can’t change the prices now, but there will be sales in the future, as usual for Steam/GOG. Cheers! Best regards,

 

[agris]

Classic “you can lead a horse to water…” response.

 

[Sacibengala]

Got some more steam reviews now. IIRC, around 10 weighted reviews, the game will get a % and start showing up in the store with more visibility. Steam is pretty opaque with their process though. Lack of a launch discount probably reduces visibility.

Not sure what Pierre's stance on discounts are, but they help a lot. Even 10% off will do wonders.

His reply to my "please lower the fucking price dear god" email:

Thank you for the feedback Frank! Can’t change the prices now, but there will be sales in the future, as usual for Steam/GOG. Cheers! Best regards,

Thanks for trying, anyway.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Well, I think he's right. You can't launch with a price and then immediately lower it without pissing a lot of people off. Even lowering it later tends to rustle people's jimmies for whatever reason.

 

[Tyranicon]

Well, I think he's right. You can't launch with a price and then immediately lower it without pissing a lot of people off. Even lowering it later tends to rustle people's jimmies for whatever reason.

Yeah the price is what it is, too late to change now. I don't think that's entirely a bad thing but we'll see.

 

[Bastardchops]

So there's only one Steam Purchaser review and it's negative.

And it's the only review that Steam's algorithm really cares about. Well... that sucks.

Hopefully codexer reviews will get indexed at some point. Problem is we all got the game by key, and Steam seems to treat that differently.

Yeah key-activated copies aren't counted into the Negative-Positive percentage calculation. This is done because scammers have abused the system by giving keys to review groups who'd give positive "It's good" reviews in exchange for a free key.
The scammers have ruined it for everyone else, as usual.

The thing about pricing it lower from the outset is that if you can get more copies sold and thus reviews early on you can get a decent rating showing early on.

 

[mediocrepoet]

So there's only one Steam Purchaser review and it's negative.

And it's the only review that Steam's algorithm really cares about. Well... that sucks.

Hopefully codexer reviews will get indexed at some point. Problem is we all got the game by key, and Steam seems to treat that differently.

Yeah key-activated copies aren't counted into the Negative-Positive percentage calculation. This is done because scammers have abused the system by giving keys to review groups who'd give positive "It's good" reviews in exchange for a free key.
The scammers have ruined it for everyone else, as usual.

The thing about pricing it lower from the outset is that if you can get more copies sold and thus reviews early on you can get a decent rating showing early on.

It's why early access is so insidious. You can get beta testers in for either your retail price or a slight discount, everyone reviews it more positively than they might otherwise and then when you're ready to launch (which could be never with the way these things have been going), you can bump the price if you feel like it and people won't complain since they could've gotten it cheaper and given you feedback on your broken shit.

 

[Bastardchops]

Got some more steam reviews now. IIRC, around 10 weighted reviews, the game will get a % and start showing up in the store with more visibility. Steam is pretty opaque with their process though. Lack of a launch discount probably reduces visibility.

Not sure what Pierre's stance on discounts are, but they help a lot. Even 10% off will do wonders.

His reply to my "please lower the fucking price dear god" email:

Thank you for the feedback Frank! Can’t change the prices now, but there will be sales in the future, as usual for Steam/GOG. Cheers! Best regards,

Not to mention it being $26 AUD or about $17 Euro extra for the manual and module editor.

 

[AetherVagrant]

At least you have character models now instead of tokens!
I haven't played yet but some of my reservations have been mitigated
that said I wont buy it without pirating it first to make sure I want to contribute 50 bucks on a codex game.

 

[ROARRR]

I backed the game and payed 80$ to download the game from his website.
I used all 20 downloads becuase fucking updates.
And now he makes a update with better everything and I payed for shit.
May the game rott in hell.

 

[Iluvcheezcake]

So i backed it on KS, i sure as hell didnt spend all of the downloads from his website. Shouldn't i get a steam/gog key?

 

[Sin2x]

So i backed it on KS, i sure as hell didnt spend all of the downloads from his website. Shouldn't i get a steam/gog key?

You should read KS updates: "After the release, I will take care of the KotC 2 Steam and GOG keys that should be sent to Kickstarter backers depending on each person's pledge. I'll post a Kickstarter update once that's done."

 

[Iluvcheezcake]

So i backed it on KS, i sure as hell didnt spend all of the downloads from his website. Shouldn't i get a steam/gog key?

You should read KS updates: "After the release, I will take care of the KotC 2 Steam and GOG keys that should be sent to Kickstarter backers depending on each person's pledge. I'll post a Kickstarter update once that's done."

Good point m8. Just checked and my backer tier is too low
Oh well, ill play the website one and buy the full trilogy definitive Root edition when it comes out

 

[Sin2x]

Good point m8. Just checked and my backer tier is too low
Oh well, ill play the website one and buy the full trilogy definitive Root edition when it comes out

Drop Pierre a line, maybe you can pay the difference between your tier's contribution and the full version's price.

 

[Lacrymas]

40 Euro for Pierre's latest experiment is not what I'd call a bargain. I'll wait for a deeeeeep sale in the future. Not to mention more modules. Augury of Chaos is waaay too high level for my tastes.

 

[hivemind]

bought it, wrote a negative review, refunded it

pathfinder chads send their regards 3.5cels....

 

[catfood]

Why does this game look worse than the first one?